Calling the wind : twentieth century African-American short stories

Summary: An anthology of twentieth-century African-American short stories written by Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, and more than fifty others, with biographical notes.

Item details

ISBN: 0060183373
ISBN: 9780060183370
ISBN: 0060982012
ISBN: 9780060982010
Physical Description: print
xxv, 622 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York, NY : HarperPerennial, ©1993.

Contents / Notes

General Note:

"An Edward Burlingame book."

Formatted Contents Note:

The goophered grapevine / Charles Chesnutt -- The ingrate / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Fauset -- Esther / Jean Toomer -- The hands: a story / Marita Bonner -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen -- Truant / Claude McKay -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- Headwaiter / Chester Himes -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- Jack in the pot / Dorothy West -- Flying home / Ralph Ellison -- Who's passing for who? / Langston Hughes -- The only man on Liberty Street / William Melvin Kelley -- Come out the wilderness / James Baldwin -- Has anybody seen Miss Dora Dean? / Ann Petry -- Mother dear and Daddy / Junius Edwards -- Blues for Pablo / John Stewart -- Son in the afternoon / John A. Williams -- What's your problem? / Robert Boles -- The distributors / Henry Dumas -- Wade / Rosa Guy -- Key to the city / Diane Oliver -- The alternative / LeRoi Jones ; Amiri Baraka -- To Da-duh, in memoriam / Paule Marshall -- A new day / Charles Wright -- Night and the loves of Joe Dicostanzo / Samuel R. Delaney -- The lookout / Cyrus Colter -- A long day in November / Ernest J. Gaines -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- The story of a scar / James Alan McPherson -- Soldiers / Ellease Southerland -- Roselily / Alice Walker -- White rat / Gayl Jones -- Loimos / Edgar Nkose White -- The education of Mingo / Charles Johnson -- Scat / Clarence Major -- Now is the time / Cecil M. Brown -- Damballah / John Edgar Wideman -- Kiswana Browne / Gloria Naylor -- "Recitatif" / Toni Morrison -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Chitterling / Henry Van Dyke -- Jesus and Fat Tuesday / Colleen J. McElroy -- The world of Rosie Polk / Ann Allen Shockley -- Mali is very dangerous / Reginald McKnight -- Her mother's payers on fire / Don Belton -- Wings of the dove / Hal Bennett -- Zazoo / Larry Duplechan -- Guess who's coming to Seder / Trey Ellis -- Top of the game / John McCluskey Jr. -- Going to meet Aaron / Richard Perry -- Willie Bea and Jaybird / Tina McElroy Ansa -- Screen memory / Michelle Cliff -- Age would be that does / Percival Everett -- Going for the Moon / Al Young -- Quilting on the rebound / Terry McMillan.